Improved quilting-frame



@mind tata Meme-W- .IOSIAHODELL OF PETROLEUM CENTRE, PENNSYLVANIA. Letters Patent No. 89,427, dated April 27,1869.

IMIPROVED QUILTING-PRAMR The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, J osIAH ODELL, of Petroleum Centre, in the county of Venango, and State of Pennsylvania, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Quilting-Frames; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specication.

This invention relates to improvements in quiltingframes, designed to make them more convenient and useful, as such, than any now in use, and to adapt them also for use as'a clothes-frame.

It consists in certain improvements in means for clamping the bars of the frame together, and arrangement of the said bars, calculated to adapt the frame tothe said double use, as will be hereinafter more fully specified.

Figure 1 represents a plan view of my improved frame, with a quilt spread thereon. K

Figure 2 represents atransverse section of the same.

Figure 3 represents a plan View of the apparatus when adjusted for a clothes horse.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

I take four posts A, two transversebars B, and three longitudinal rollers C, and construct thereof a quiltingframe, as follows:

On each end of the posts, and transverse bars, A B, I provide clamps D E, hinged together at F, and secured in the parts D, to one side of the said posts and bars, so that the parts E may lap around the ends thereof, and be secured to the other sides by thumbscrews G.

Near the joints of these clamps, holes are formed for the admission of the longitudinal bars, and these are made slightly larger than the holes, so that when the clamps are screwed up tight, they will gripe the bars snugly.

I provide bearings H, upon the posts at one side of the frame, preferably made of flat bar-metal, properly bent and provided with holes for securing to the said posts by thumb-screws I.

In these bearings I arrange one of the bars C, for rolling the fabric to be quilted, and clamp it by the said bearings, to hold it at any position required.`

IVhen it is desired to let the fabric off, from time to time, the screws I may be loosened for uurolling.

In like manner the fabric may be taken up when linished, on the other side, by loosening the clamp, winding up the roller, and securing it by screwing down the clamps.

end in an inclined position, against the Wall, or in any other preferred position.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the legs A, transverse bars B, rollers C, clamp-bearings D, E, Aand H, and thumbscrews G, lwhen arranged and adapted for the employment in a quilting-frame, or clothes-drier, as and for the purpose specified.

J OSIAH ODELL.

Witnesses J .mns H. SMITH,

THOMAS DoNAeHY.

The tension may be maintained, laterally, by the lar frame for hanging clothes, which may be set on one 

